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"I'm so cold," he saId, burrowing in the hay, "I'm so cold I wouldn't give a damn if this caught fire and burned me alive." He was hungry, too. Starved. Last night, they dined on bowls of Salvation Army soup, and today the only nourishment they'd had was some chocolate bars and chewing gum that Dick had stolen from a drugstore candy counter. "Any more Hershey?" Perry asked. No, but there was still a pack of chewing gum. They divided it, then settled down to chewing it, each chomp- ing on two and a half sticks of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit, Dick's favorite flavor. (Per- ry preferred Doublemint.) Money was the problem. Their utter lack of it had led Dick to decide that their next move should be what Perry considered "a " K crazy-man stunt -a return to ansas City. V\Then Dick had first urged the return" Perry had said, "You ought to see a doctor." Now, huddled together in the cold darkness, listening to the dark, cold rain, they resumed the argu- ment, Perry once more listing the dan- gers of such a move, for surely by thIs time Dick was wanted for parole viola- tion-"if nothing worse." But Dick was not to be dissuaded. Kansas City, he again insisted, was the one place he was certain he could successfully "hang a lot of hot paper." He went on, "Hell, I know we've got to be careful. I kno\v they've got a warrant out. Because of the paper we hung before. But we'll move fast. One day-that'll.. do it. If we grab enough, mayhe we ought to try Florida. Spend Christmas in Miami. Stay the winter if it looks good." But Perry chewed his gum and shivered and sulked. Dick said, "What is it, honey? That other deal? Why the hell can't you forget it? They never made any connection. They never will." Perry said, "You could be wrong. And if you are, it means The Corner." Neither one had ever before referred to the ultimate penalt} In the State of Kan- sas-the gallows, or death in The Cor- ner, as the inmates of Kansas State Penitentiary have named the shed that houses the equipment required to hang a man. Dick said, "The comedian You kill me." He struck a match, intending to smoke a cigarette, but something seen by the light of the flaring match brought him to his feet and carried him across the barn to a cow stall A car was parked inside the stall. A black- and-"\vhite two-door 1956 Chevrolet. The key was in the ignition. D EWEY was determined to conceal from "the civilian population" dny knowledge of a major break in the Clutter case-so determined that he decided to take into his confidence Garden City's two professional town criers: Bill Brown, editor of the Garden City Telegram, and Robert Wells, manager of the local radio station, KIUL. In outlining the situation, Dewey emphasized his reasons for con- sidering secrecy of the first importance. "Remember, there's a possibility these . " men are Innocent. I t was a possibility too valid to dis- miss. The informer, Floyd \\T ells, might easily have invented his story; such tale- telling was not infrequently undertaken by prisoners who hoped to win favor or attract official notice. But even If the man's every word was gospel, Dewey and his colleagues had not yet unearthed one bit of solid supporting evidence- "courtroom evidence." What had they discovered that could not be interpreted as plausible, though exceptional, coinci- dence? Just because Smith had tra v- eIled to Kansas to visit his friend Hickock, and just because Hickock possessed a gun of the calibre used to commit the crime, and just be- cause the suspects had arranged a false alibi to account for their whereabouts the night of N 0- vember 14th, they were not necessarily mass rnurderers. "But we're pretty sure this is it. \\1 e all think so. If we didn't, we wouldn't have set up a seven- teen-state alarm. From Arkansas to Oregon. But keep in l11ind: It could be years before we catch them. They may have separated. Or left the country. There's a chance they've gone to .LL\.las- ka-not hard to get lost in Alaska. The longer they're free, the less of a case we'll have. Frankly, as matters stand, we don't have much of a case anvhow. \\1 e could nab those sonsabitches tomor- row, and never be able to prove spit." Dewey did not exaggerate. Except for two sets of boot prints, one bearing a diamond pattern and the other a Cat's Paw design, the slayers had left not a single clue. Undoubtedly, since they seemed to take such care, they had long ago got rid of the boots. And the radio, too-assuming that it was they who had stolen it, which was something Dewey still hesitated to do, for it appeared to him "ludicrously inconsistent" with the